Europol: The Global Cyber Attack Is At Unprecedented Level

An worldwide manhunt was well under way for the plotters behind the world's biggest-ever computer ransom assault.

MalwareTech said in a in a blog post Saturday that he had returned from lunch with a friend on Friday and learned that networks across Britain's health system had been hit by ransomware, tipping him off that "this was something big".

Described as the greatest cyber ransom assault, the attack started on Friday affecting state agencies and important companies around the globe including Russian banks, British hospitals in addition to FedEx as well as European auto factories.

Europol has warned that the threat "will continue to grow" as people return to work on Monday.

It is not clear who is behind the attack, but the tools used to carry it out are believed to have been developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA) to exploit a weakness found in Microsoft's Windows system.

This one worked because of a "perfect storm" of conditions, including a known and highly unsafe security hole in Microsoft Windows, tardy users who didn't apply Microsoft's March software fix, and malware created to spread quickly once inside university, business and government networks.

The companies and government agencies targeted were diverse.

He also said that this could be the most powerful cyber attack ever.

French carmaker Renault was forced to stop production at sites in France, Slovenia and Romania, while FedEx said it was "implementing remediation steps as quickly as possible". The company said it deployed extra staff to busy stations to provide customer information, and recommended that passengers check its website or app for information on their connections.

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